Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household …

socioeconomic characteristics, housing traits, country-specific constant terms, and household unobserved heterogeneity. We attribute … access to liquidity. Household's reported distress is also affected by excess indebtedness relative to the debt load of …

We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household … household finances and social interaction, rather than focusing one particular facet of household finances, such as the holding … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …

We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel …

between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. Unlike …

determinant of the MPC as households that invest last year's savings, or hold them for the future, have again a lower MPC. These …